How many of you have returned from Vista to XP?

[Edman]

I have returned to XP, mainly because of too many BSOD (way many more than in XP), in both Laptop and Desktop PC.

 

[fyleow]

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[Mem]

I'm staying with my Vista x64 HP,best Microsoft OS I have had on my PC, damn stable plus never had a BSOD yet,way better then I remembered what XP was in its early days.

I have returned to XP, mainly because of too many BSOD (way many more than in XP), in both Laptop and Desktop PC.

Sounds like it could be a software/driver problem,I would try and track the problem down myself rather then run back to XP .

 

[spyordie007]

I've been running Vista as my primary OS for over a year now, it is by far a better OS than XP (which IMHO is showing its age). There are a lot of improvements "under the hood" (i.e. new network stack) that are not readily visible.

I agree with Mem, sounds like driver/hardware issues.

 

[juktar]

If yoour getting too many BSOD then your problem most likly is in hardware. I have very rarely received a BSOD in XP that wasnot related to hardware. The couple of times I did, it was related to software that I was running.

 

[HeavyB]

I dual boot Xp and Vista, but only use XP for the one app that won't run in Vista, so I usually am working in Vista. No, BSOD, no crashes. I like it alot.

Cheers,
HeavyB

 

[loup garou]

Nope, I have 3 Vista machines (work desktop, laptop, home desktop) and they're all working great. Can't wait to upgrade or replace my MCE box in the livingroom...especially after hearing that Fiji is not the codename for SP1 or another release of Windows, but an out of band MediaCenter release.

I do have an XP VM running on my office PC, but that's just for supporting others who are still running XP.

 

[smashp]

3 machines With Vista, XP in Virtual Machines for incompatible software.No BSOD yet

 

[Smilin]

Running great since November on my main gaming rig, the 2ndary wife pc, and my work box.

OP: Were all these responses what you were expecting or not?

Originally posted by: juktar
If yoour getting too many BSOD then your problem most likly is in hardware. I have very rarely received a BSOD in XP that wasnot related to hardware. The couple of times I did, it was related to software that I was running.

The general rule: 3 or more different types of bugchecks is almost certainly a hardware issue. Some single bugchecks can be indicative of a hardware issue with just one (stop 77 with first parameter 0 for instance). Stop 50s and such are typically software.

 

[foges]

Yup, me. I hate all the clicking you have to do in vista, there are just too many dialogue boxes. I had problems finding things in vista as well and the fact that i was having problems with some of the programs (Acronis Disk Director Suite, NOD32, alcohol 120%, iTunes, Thunderbird).

Personally i think MS made vista too complicated. I have a laptop running OS X and its easy as pie and intuitive, XP is intutive to me as well, but thats cause ive been running it for years now and know it prety much back to front.

The only thing i really miss is the theme. Im really bored with the silver/green XP one

 

[stevty2889]

I was running Vista, and went back to XP. Games were running worse in Vista, no longer lets me use my hotmail account with outlook express, can't find any temp monitoring program that works right, including speedfan. I do like the look and feel of it, but there are too many things that it lacks or slows down for me to want to keep using it.

EDIT: add the lack of audio drivers for my M-audio card, and Nvidia drivers not supporting 1920x1080 resultion to my list.

 

[farp96]

I went back to xp mainly because of BF2 and nvidia's crappy drivers for vista. In vista BF2 plays like crap and crashes to the desktop while loading maps. And the frame rates are all over the place. Its like that in most games on vista, yet Xp is perfectly smooth. I know its not really vista its nvidia's horrible drivers. So once those are fixed and up to par with xp's driver support I'll go back to vista, but for now games keep me on xp...desktop use is fine on vista...

 

[firewolfsm]

I dual boot, I'm in Vista most of the time though. Once I get more RAM and nVidia gets out decent drivers I'll reformat with only Vista.

 

[Tegeril]

I've gone from XP Pro x2 and XP Media Center to Vista Ultimate, Vista Business, and Vista Home Premium and I'm not going back

 

[Tegeril]

Originally posted by: stevty2889
I was running Vista, and went back to XP. Games were running worse in Vista, no longer lets me use my hotmail account with outlook express, can't find any temp monitoring program that works right, including speedfan. I do like the look and feel of it, but there are too many things that it lacks or slows down for me to want to keep using it

SpeedFan works fine in Vista, x86 and x64. Hotmail can be checked in Thunderbird with a super easy third party extension.

 

[Shawn]

Not me. I could never go back. I love the new media center and I just bought an HD-DVD drive so I need Vista anyway.

 

[TwYsTeD]

If I still gamed on the pc I would probably go back to xp, atleast until the driver situation got better. I can't have more than one thing playing sound in vista at a time or i will get serious popping and sound stuttering (on my x-fi platinum). And then there's nvidia....

 

[Chaotic42]

I haven't. It's completely stable, runs quickly, and I haven't run into any of these "OMG!11! Driver problemz!1One" with either my X-Fi or my Nvidia card.

 

[RebateMonger]

Originally posted by: Smilin
The general rule: 3 or more different types of bugchecks is almost certainly a hardware issue. Some single bugchecks can be indicative of a hardware issue with just one (stop 77 with first parameter 0 for instance). Stop 50s and such are typically software.

Smilin,

Would you mind expanding on that statement a little, please? I'm trying to learn more about debugging Stop errors. I know how to run the debugger, but that's about it. Are "bugchecks" indicated by the various Parameters shown in the Stop Error?

Thanks for any info.

 

[greyeyezz]

I went back, Bluescreens at restart, Opera crashing, Event viewr not starting, Resource monitor freezing, not responding. Maybe i'll try again later.

 

[Mem]

Originally posted by: stevty2889
I was running Vista, and went back to XP. Games were running worse in Vista, no longer lets me use my hotmail account with outlook express, can't find any temp monitoring program that works right, including speedfan. I do like the look and feel of it, but there are too many things that it lacks or slows down for me to want to keep using it

Speedfan 4.32 works great even with Vista x64.As to Hotmail I prefer thunderbird and Firefox,however I do have a shortcut icon at top of Firefox browser for hotmail,one click and I'm in my hotmail account .

 

[stevty2889]

Originally posted by: Tegeril

Originally posted by: stevty2889
I was running Vista, and went back to XP. Games were running worse in Vista, no longer lets me use my hotmail account with outlook express, can't find any temp monitoring program that works right, including speedfan. I do like the look and feel of it, but there are too many things that it lacks or slows down for me to want to keep using it

SpeedFan works fine in Vista, x86 and x64. Hotmail can be checked in Thunderbird with a super easy third party extension.

Speedfan doesn't seem to like my motherboard for some reason, it doesn't pick up the cpu temps, just gives eronius numbers that never change.

 

[BladeVenom]

I would say something about how much Vista sucks, but benchmarks say it better than words.

 

[Pirotech]

i haven't returned yet, i have both of this oses, but work mostly in XP coz vista works a bit slow on my system.

 

[Mem]

Originally posted by: BladeVenom
I would say something about how much Vista sucks, but benchmarks say it better than words.

I would not put too much faith in benchmarks,I can show you benchmarks where Vista is actually faster in gaming etc.....and vice versa,however Vista's performance will get better with time and you have no choice but to upgrade sooner or later if you want to play DX10 games down the road,you can resist now but sooner or later you'll be assimilated .